Discord: the_adawg (AE)
Supports: Forza Horizon 4 and 5
Offically: MS Store/XBOX PC App (latest versions), Steam (latest versions)
Unofficially: Every version that isn't running on a console or via cloud gaming should work.
License: MIT

• ✅ Update codes now allow us to add support for new versions without needing to update forza-painter
• ✅ Update codes are now downloaded automatically (or can be copied from others if you would prefer)
• ✅ You can now pick between multiple found vinyl groups where the layer count makes it obvious which is correct
• 🐞 Fixed crashing after image generation complete
• 🐞 Fixed unable to pause because not a console application anymore (Pause button added)
• 🐞 Added support for latest versions (Steam and MS Store/XBox)

• 🐞 Added support for the new Steam version (thanks to the kind game donation by Arrow Skye)
• 🐞 Added support for the new Microsoft Store and XBox versions (*Steam currently untested)
• ✅ Replaced all of the old GUI with OpenGL + Dear ImGui
• ✅ Replaced the old StretchBlt preview system
• ✅ Some minor improvements
• 🐞 Fixed Steam version 1.507.426.0 not detecting
• ✅ Fixed a bug where it was not finding vinyl groups sometimes
• ✅ Automatic cropping in most images
• ✅ Smarter shape generation (Slight speed/quality bump)
• ✅ Redundancy check is now multi-threaded
• 🐞 Fix bad handling of hard-to-fit shapes
• 🐞 Fix redundant shapes pass not working
• 🐞 Fix resume not working due to folder location
• ✅ MAJOR SPEED IMPROVEMENTS (only possible with advance tweaking previously)
• ✅ Better vinyl group detection and handling
• ✅ Better versioning code
• ✅ Divide mutations across threads
• ✅ Bottleneck checks and automatic balancing
• ✅ REWORKED ALL PROFILES (only use the new ones please)
• ✅ Redundancy check bat script (to do a redundant check on completed .jsons)
• ✅ 1px border enforcement (No more adding a border yourself)
• ✅ .jsons now save into a folder for neatness
• 🐞 Max shape size scales with resolution (bug fix for images looking better at lower res)

• ✅ More versions of the games supported
• ✅ Many bug fixes
• ✅ Redundant shape checks
• ✅ Resume from json
• ✅ Dump and import vinyl groups (hand made ones)

Please read #basic-tutorial and ask for help in #support on the discord

• https://discord.gg/cJhsyXRC57

Ask for help on the Discord server first!. If you cannot get help on the Discord server.

• the_adawg - I'm currently v. busy with life so ask in the Discord first please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wum11-IhfM Still, please consider getting Discord and joining as we have a growing library of handmade vinyl groups being shared.

Any image → Forza (Vinyl Group)

It supports both! And it should work for older and future releases too thanks to some magic under the hood.

When you drag one or multiple images onto forza-painter.exe; It will break the image(s) down into shapes and store them in .json data files. Then you drag those .json data files onto forza-painter.exe; It deserializes this .json and uses some math, reverse engineering and the Windows API to push these shapes into FH5 automagically.

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (Download both x86 and x64):
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53587

• Will this get me banned!?

To preface this:
I take no responsibility for your use of this software.

You may be reported by players if you share the vinyls as they are extremely
detailed. Some players feel that making vinyl groups in this way is unfair as
they have had to suffer through learning the tool and were not able to use an
easy starting point.

This is a completely valid opinion, and with enough time, practice and talent
you CAN recreate extremely complex images. I just don't share the opinion that
you should have to.

As for FH5 detecting this; It is not a "cheat", it is not giving any player
an unfair advantage, it is not modifying game files or game code, and it is
not taking advantage of any exploits.

Interpret that as you feel. I believe this is a missing necessary feature
from the vinyl group designer.

• My version is older/newer or it isn't working following the steps!

For unsupported versions, forza-painter will scan for a known pattern.
If it fails to find this pattern, it will notify you.
Most versions should work fine, but others may need tweaking.

• Will you update this to support newer versions?

It should automatically support newer versions, but in the case it doesn't let me know on Discord.

• I have an error that I don't understand...

Check the requirements above.
If you are still having problems, join the discord (top of readme) and ask for help in #support

• My issue is not listed

Join the discord (at top of readme), check #basic-tutorial, #faq, and ask for help in #support

• Open Forza Horizon 5 and create a new Vinyl Group.
• Just make one sphere and duplicate it for as many layers as you need. Color, size, scale, etc. DO NOT MATTER.
  • Tip (Optional): You can make (cut/insert) ~100 then select an existing shape, select highlight all, copy and insert these 100 over and over.
  • Tip (Optional): Another trick is to save one vinyl group with 6 groups of 500 spheres. Simply load it and delete the ones you don't want (e.g. to reduce it down to 2000 shapes, delete 2 of them), then ungroup.
• Save this as a template, as something identifiable, e.g. forza-painter 3000 shapes.

Note: When you load these templates the shapes will be grouped, make sure you select them and UNGROUP before using (If you miss one it will tell you).

• Just drag one or multiple images onto forza-painter.exe and it will start
• It will generate a .json file in a folder with the same name and in same folder as the image(s) you dragged in. (most profiles will also save one every 500 shapes separately)
  • e.g. C:\My Pics\happy.jpg → C:\My Pics\happy\happy.json
• You can close the window at any time when you are happy or if the shapes are complete.
• If more than one image is dragged in, it will queue them, completing them one by one.
• Advanced Users: Consider tweaking the profiles in the settings folder and share them with other users. See #faq on the Discord for more info.

• Open Forza and load your template with the correct shape count
• Ungroup it
• Drag the .json file onto forza-painter.exe

• Join the Discord
• Download a cool vinyl json (hand made in most cases by our community)
• Follow the steps above for importing like normal!
• Thank the awesome people in the Discord making these and sharing them!
  • Make your own and dump them with _dump_vinyl_group_by_running_this.bat ;)

• geometrize-lib - Sam Twidale (https://samcodes.co.uk/)
• Primitive library - Michael Fogleman (https://github.com/fogleman/primitive)
• Dear ImGui - Omar Cornut (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui)